Posted on 02/25/2025 11:21:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The forceful approach that Emil Bove III has taken toward the Southern District of New York underscores his own fraught relationship with the office that gave him the expertise to do so.
Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general, stood stone-faced and alone at the prosecution table inside the federal courthouse in Manhattan last week to do a job his onetime colleagues in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York would not.
Mr. Bove, who runs the day-to-day operations of the Justice Department under President Trump, was there to seek the dismissal of corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams, a task seen as so dubious that two prosecutors in a prideful office known as the “Sovereign District of New York” resigned rather than carry out his demands to do it.
He lashed out at the office after the hearing. “There are no separate sovereigns in this executive branch,” he wrote in a statement that also suggested his former co-workers prepare to resign if they disagreed.
It was the latest chapter in Mr. Bove’s estranged-family feud with the Southern District, where he rose to prominence as a top terrorism prosecutor and departed in December 2021 after a case he oversaw crumbled over procedural violations by members of his team.
He would go on to become a key member of Mr. Trump’s defense team known for his unyielding style. Since being installed at the Justice Department, he has emerged as one of the most powerful officials in the country and the main enforcer of Mr. Trump’s demands for retribution and unimpeded control of federal law enforcement.
That Mr. Bove, 44, has quashed dissent at the Southern District is an indication of its outsize importance as a symbol of prosecutorial independence — and its enduring role in Mr. Trump’s...
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He is still “Acting.” Is Trump going to even try to get him confirmed? He is HATED on Capitol Hill, say my friends there.
He’s 44? He look at least 60.
I don’t understand the fuss over this. Prosecutors cut deals every day to drop charges in return for cooperation.
democrats don’t need the courts, they just open the jail cells and let the murderers walk free...
Funny how the say Bove is targeting them, but 224 names from the Southern District of New York and Eastern District of New York are on the open letter from 900 former federal prosecutors supporting Jack Smith:
He was hired by the director, Kash Patel-he does not need confirmation-he is the assistant director...
Oops-he is called deputy AG there, not asst director...
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/22/donald-trump-justice-department-immigration-005783
...Trump tapped Bove as principal associate deputy attorney general, which does not require Senate confirmation and is typically a pivotal role in day-to-day management of the department. Trump has selected Bove to act as DOJ’s No. 2 official until Blanche is confirmed...
No, that is Bongino at FBI, and you are correct. This guy is #2 at DOJ, and might need it.
Thanks-did not know that Blanche needed confirmation...
Oops-my mistake...
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